Prasad Oak to take a break from performing submit Dharmaveer: Will concentrate on directing now

Though his final movie Dharmaveer managed to rake the moolahs on the field workplace, actor Prasad Oak has made up his thoughts. The resolution is that he now desires to shift his focus to directing and maintain performing within the backseat. “Ab direction ko forefront pe and acting ko backseat pe (rakhna hai),” he declares.

“I didn’t come to Mumbai to be an actor. I came to the city to be a director. I never wanted to be an actor, I always wanted to be a director. And that dream of direction has lagged. I came to Mumbai in 1996 and directed my first film in 2009 (with Hay Kay Nay Kay). My next (directorial) Kaccha Limbu was in 2017. Now I want to direct more films,” he states.

The actor-filmmaker has completed virtually 92 movies as an actor and he admits that he loved his stint as an actor. “I have always enjoyed acting. I did it with full honesty.” the Hirkani (2019) actor admits. However, he additionally regrets not taking the courageous step of directing earlier. “I’ll always tell my younger self – You should have started direction quite earlier. It was my dream to make my directorial debut with Chandramukhi,” he mentions. Oak lastly directed the film – which was primarily based on Vishwas Patil’s eponymous novel – this 12 months. “It took 15 years for Vishwas Patil to give me the rights to remake his novel. He knew me as an actor but he wasn’t sure of my directing abilities. He was skeptical. After Hirkani (a film Oak also directed), he gave me the rights in December 2019. Chandramukhi has been my 18-years of passion and my biggest ‘dream come true’,” he indicators off.